The other, more chilling way to read it is that people are creatures of
government. That the government, by right, can exercise almost unlimited
control over peoples’ lives. That the proper relationship between the
state and the individual is that between master and servant. This is why
the Obama
campaign quickly threw the approved welcoming-committee video under the
bus — its underlying tenet was just a little too blatant. The trick to
collectivizing America is never admitting the objective. The end of
freedom comes with the promise of “dignity” and the imposition of
“fairness.” It starts with “hope and change” and ends with individual
mandates.

The article points out that these odd reversals come on the heels of the 'you didn't build that' nuclear bomb. This is really good news because it means a) the criticisms of
Romney/Ryan have been effective; and b) Obama thought there was enough
useful idiots in this country to completely expose the communist agenda
and he now knows, there isn't and he has to backtrack.

In 1886, in the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews
commented eloquently on the nature and origins of government.
Sovereignty “is the author and source of law,” he wrote, but
“sovereignty itself remains with the people, by whom and for whom all
government exists and acts.” He continued that “the very idea that one
man may be compelled to hold his life, or the means of living, or any
material right essential to the enjoyment of life at the mere will of
another seems to be intolerable in any country where freedom prevails,
as being the essence of slavery itself.” What voters have to decide in
the upcoming election is who belongs to whom.